“I sing only the Ego and the individual. So does in secret each man and woman and child who breathes, but is afraid to sing it aloud.”—Mary MacLane We are very pleased to announce a friend of the Union of Egoists project has launched his own dedicated website for documenting the life and work of […]
We delve into the first half of The Ego and His Own, titled “Man.” There are some quotes from Stirner’s contemporaries Feuerbach and Bauer, and then Chapter One, titled “A Human Life,” begins. Every other week I will release a podcast containing a new recording. I challenge you to listen with a critical ear. Do I mispronounce? […]
Just a bit of ephemera I thought was quite interesting, and I’m sure some of you reading may think so as well. Below is a cropped photo of the letterhead John Basil Barnhill, aka John Erwin McCall had for his (last?) journal Humanity First (1919). Readers will probably first know Barnhill as the publisher of […]
To Butt, or Not to Butt. At some time in the distant past, no date given, some fellow bending over was given a boot in the britches. To some this appeared such a delightful spectacle that they made a game of it. Soon the game spread all over the world. In later times some fellow […]
Protagoras, Nietzsche, Stirner: Expositors of Egoism by Benedict Lachmann translated by Edward Mornin foreword by Kevin I. Slaughter appendix by Trevor Blake Stand Alone SA1090 Available at Amazon.com or Barnes & Nobles or Underworld Amusements Finally, the 1985 translation of Benedict Lachmann’s 1914 work on Egoism has been published, after being lost for 33 years. […]
This is the short preamble to The Ego and His Own titled “All things are Nothing to Me,” released as an independent episode. All Ego episodes will solely contain sections from the book, without commentary. You may notice that we skipped past the front material and directly into the book. The plan is to record the introduction […]
“When one thoroughly knows and deeply examines the notion of individuality and the consequences that derive from the principle that is its basis, meaning that every man is not only related to the world in a particular way, but also to every object in the world and to every idea that these objects awaken, one […]
Lecture to the Ferrer Colony by John William Lloyd In reading this paper to you, members of the Ferrer Colony, I wish to say that I claim neither inspiration nor infallibility. I do not pretend to be an expert in anything. I am simply a friend and a comrade who has a few suggestions to […]
Alphonse Gallaud–the future Zo d’Axa–was born on May 24, 1864 in Paris to a well-to-do family, his father being a municipal engineer in the city. After completing his studies in Chaptal College, he entered Saint-Cyr’s military academy. He enlisted in a grenadier cavalry regiment and departed with infantrymen to Africa. But the adventure wasn’t as […]
“The Man Born Blind” Ambrose Bierce A man born blind received his sight By a painful operation; And these are things he saw in the light Of an infant observation. He saw a merchant, good and wise. And greatly, too, respected, Who looked, to those imperfect eyes, Like a swindler undetected. He saw a patriot […]
